What is wrong with some people !!

[Highfivemum]

So take 3 of my DC to school and on the way back bump into a mum getting her kids in the car. She was all excited and announced to me that surely I haven’t sent my DC into school today with the heat. At which I say yes of course they have plenty of water and the teachers have said they will monitor and gear lessons around the heat etc. said I was confident in the school. At which the mum said OMG your crazy this heat is so dangerous no way are my two going into school we are off to the beach to keep cool with two other parents and kids. !!! I told her she was the crazy one exposing her kids to the heat at the beach. She took the hump and said they will go in the sea to keep cool and if I had any sense I would collect my kids and do the same. Speechless to say the least.
should I have challenge her. She was very miffed.

... not drinking enough fluid or using sun cream properly is valid.

British media hysteria has a lot to answer for @Ohshitiveturnedintomymother but equally people could apply some critical thinking.

Reading all of these threads from 40-degree Spain has been quite something. England always has to be special.

@Ohshitiveturnedintomymother

You've literally put in your post 'it feels a lot cooler than the 35 degrees predicted so I think we'll be ok'

All I was doing was being conversant! In real life the normal response would be 'well yeah that's true etc etc'

Straight on the attack with a rude response-why?!!

I live in a very small town on the East coast; we don't have much infrastructure for tourists at all.

There's really only one road into town and it gets jammed at the best of times during the season - for miles back, sometimes. I dread to think what would happen if someone broke down in such a jam - to the car occupants and to the people stuck behind them!

😂😂😂 I thought the same

What's covid got to do with it?

Are we supposed to be locking down again or something??

You both sound as mouthy as each other.

Because the British public in general have no clue what impact this sort of hot weather has because it happens so rarely. They go to the beaches ill-prepared.

I agree! Why even engage with her about it?

I personally think anyone who attends a&e with sunstroke today should be fined! People are thick. It's why mountain rescue have to help idiots on holiday in flipflops who fancy a walk and get stuck. It's not the heat per se it's being unprepared for it and underestimating it's danger that is the issue.

The temperature where I am according to the forecast will reach its hottest at 4pm this afternoon. After the schools come out.

Sorry, I don’t understand your point

Yesterday there were queues of cars trying to get to one local beach, and pictures show that once there you are sitting cheek by jowl with other people.
Wonder how many of these people will be rocking up at A & E with heat stroke

I think the point is that therefore schools aren’t going to protect kids from heat as they’ll be turfed out at 4pm, and the beach might not be so terrible during school hours. Though I do think going out between 11-3 today for leisure is fairly stupid whichever way you cut it.

Other people's shit, is other people's shit. Why waste your energy?

I have kept mine off. But not because its hot. They are closing at 1:30 for the next few days and aren't doing lessons but fun activities. We are due to fly on wendesday and they are at the end of a cold. Not covid, have tested. And want them well for the trip. Covid and chicken pox are also going around so trying to minimise risk. I have waited 9 years for the holiday! I'm not risking it for them to not be doing normal lessons! School said unauthorised. I'm fine with that. They aren't missing lessons. Plus our house is cooler as its quite shaded.

The point is that parents will have to protect their children from the worst of the heat whether they go to school or not because the hottest bit of the day is going to be after school finishes.
I think packing the car up to take small children to the beach for the day instead of sending them into school though is the most exhausting parental option.

Covid!! On a beach 🤣🤦‍♀️

Let’s be honest. People who have taken their kids out of school to go to the beach really haven’t done so because they’re worried about the kids in the heat. They have done so because it’s a perfect day for them to go to the beach, and for once they have an excuse to take the kids out of school.

And the reality is that it is highly unlikely it is going to be 40 degrees in most places. There will be a runway somewhere where they measure 40 degrees, but for most places it will be mid to high 30’s, which is still high, but nothing we haven’t experienced before. The media will still hype up the fact that “the UK soared to temperatures of 40 degrees” though.

Loved that they were saying how this is the first time a red heat warning has ever been issued, and then went on to say that the warning system was introduced last year. 😂

Exactly. For many kids it’s safer to be at school.

Or perhaps both parents work on the front line NHS, Tesco etc who don’t have the luxury of working from home.

@Unanananana and? People are allowed to do what they want. Generally most adults have heard of sunscreen and shade.

I'm off work today and our house is quite cool so have kept mine home as forecast 40c. But we certainly won't be going to the beach or out in the sun!

Every family has to make their own judgement, and that's fine. We all have many different factors to consider. No point getting into a dispute about it.

Currently on holiday in Suffolk. Today we’re at the beach in Walberswick which is 24 degrees right now, high of 27 forecast. That’s 10 degrees lower than the (air conditioned with a private pool) place we’re staying. Everyone here has hats, suncream, water… Alternative is being home in London and sending DS to nursery to swelter…

but yes, people going to the beach are morons 🙄

Oh I see.

Well it needn’t be a competition. Sensible adults will be keeping children cool as best they can, wherever they are.

Gotta say, my heart goes out to families living in cramped flats with little airflow.

Depends where you are. 26 at our local beach at the mo.

Well it needn’t be a competition
Exactly, no need for the bitchy exchange the OP describes at all.